On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:17 PM, grafxuser wrote:
> Hi,
>
> currently I see the
gimp.org news page updated round about one time per
> month.
>
> Why not tell the readers more often about GIMP's progress? Look at
>
digikam.org. Nearly every week there comes a message, showing what's
> possible with Digikam and that the project is still alive.
> To show this progress for GIMP, you could publish
> - which features are done,
None in weeks.
> - which (severe or important) bugs where fixed,
Few
> - who provided the most or best bugreports or bugfixes,
Information noise
> - which bug reports need more info (bugs in state NEEDINFO)
Information noise
> - which help is currently needed most (with specific tasks),
Text duplication
> - what are interesting or new plug-ins in the plug-in-registry,
Few, but doable
> - a feature roadmap,
Text duplication
> - a link to an interesting article on your website
A what? :)
> Besides this will save you from answering the same questions in the mailing
> list or chat room again and again instead of forcing development.
No, it won't
> Secondly
> you constantly update your release notes instead of having to do this big
> job before the next release and telling just a bit more, that there were
> tons of bugs fixed for a long time.
I didn't understand that one, sorry.
> Of course I know your website and your information are public. But who
> really wants to dive deeply in a web page, register at a data kraken+, read
> lots of mailing list postings, forums, Bugzilla reports, Git commits etc.,
> if he only wants to know _quickly_, if the project is still alive and what
> he can do for the project?
He only have to read the front page. It's that simple.
> IMHO, the idea to use G**+ is not too good.
Ca. 5K users who currently read it don't share your view.
> I hope you haven't planned to move there.
I fail to understand that one as well. How can we possibly move the
whole website there?
> On the one hand it's good to regularly post news. But on the
> other hand do people, who like to support you, not necessarily like to
> register at G**+.
They don't have to.
> The main entrance to GIMP information should be
gimp.org,
> like one would expect from a non-commercial project called GIMP. For quick
> information rather use the wiki or a public forum at
gimp.org, please.
We kinda already do. No, really. We have a wiki. We maintain it.
There's a link to it. It gets visits/
> can also put the mailing list there and people can get in direct contact,
You mean we don't?
> too. RSS is IMHO a good solution
Likewise
Why?
> Also publish your news to news pages of computer and graphics designer
> sites (
heise.com, Golem, Linux magazine, Deviant art, DOCMA etc.) and
> get in touch with their editors.
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org
